PhD Opportunities in Physiology in Switzerland

[Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend for eligible students.] This PhD studentship examines whether a mainland re-introduction of Britain’s Glanville fritillary butterfly could be made viable through a combination of genomic evidence and habitat assessment. The project focuses on a species that survives as a single metapopulation on the Isle of Wight and asks whether inbreeding depression and low genetic diversity may be limiting its long-term persistence. The researcher will work a...

This internship/fellowship is hosted by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD), the Department of Defense’s lead laboratory for medical chemical defense research. The project sits within a multidisciplinary research environment focused on chemical and acute non-kinetic threats and on developing medical countermeasures to prevent or treat their effects. Participants work under mentor guidance as part of a team studying toxic bioeffects and evaluating novel and sta...

Cardiff University Reader Jen Davies is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship beginning in September 2027. The project is broadly centred on sensorimotor function, frailty, ageing and allostatic load . The successful doctoral researcher will have scope to take ownership of the work and shape the project within these broad research areas. This offers an opportunity to develop an individually focused research direction while contributing to wider questions about physiological function, health...

This PhD position is based at the Department of Aquatic Resources at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU Aqua) and focuses on the management and conservation of critically endangered fish, with a particular emphasis on eel ( Anguilla ). The project addresses key knowledge gaps around trap and transport (T&T) , a management method used to support fish migration in river systems with barriers and to reduce turbine mortality for downstream-moving fish. The doctoral project is desig...

The University of Oldenburg is offering a doctoral researcher position in microalgal systems biology within the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), based in the General and Molecular Microbiology group led by Prof. Dr. Ralf Rabus. The research is part of the Lower Saxony collaborative project Marine Algal Systems Biology (MAlSyB) , a joint initiative involving the Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover, Braunschweig, and Göttingen, together with the DSMZ in Braunsc...

This fully funded PhD project investigates how human impacts affect the growth of juvenile fishes during their first summer in dynamic, wave-swept sandy beach environments. The research will combine laboratory trials at Brixham Laboratory with extensive field sampling on beaches in Devon and Cornwall. The project will bring together biochemical, physiological and geochemical techniques to examine how warmer temperatures and high levels of beach visitation influence fish growth and the functionin...

IMPRS MarMic is an interdisciplinary marine microbiology MSc/PhD programme based at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, in cooperation with the University of Bremen, Constructor University Bremen, and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. The programme trains students to investigate marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiology through a broad research and teaching environment spanning physiology, ecology, evolution, molecular biol...

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Organ Biology (IMPRS-MOB) offers a structured doctoral programme in a strong research environment focused on molecular, cellular and organ biology . The programme is based at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and is run in cooperation with Justus Liebig University Giessen , Goethe University Frankfurt , and the Cardio Pulmonary Institute . Doctoral researchers carry out their thesis project under the dir...

Wearable Biofeedback Systems for Cardiovascular Health is a doctoral project at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The position sits within the third-cycle subject Technology and Health and is embedded in the growing Intelligent Heart Technology Lab , which develops and studies implantable and wearable technologies for cardiovascular applications. The project focuses on the physical mechanisms behind the beneficial physiological effe...